Activities

Texas Housers is looking for four talented and dedicated people to work for housing justice with our team. The job announcements, which contain instructions for applying, are posted on Idealist.org and are linked and summarized […]

Photo: An informal housing settlement on the outskirts of Johannesburg, which looks similar to the informal housing settlements or colonias along the Texas-Mexico border Regardless of what side of the world housing advocates work, the language […]

Around Texas Housers we are voracious readers of housing news and research reports, and especially those with a Texas angle. In our office we share links to stories and research reports via email. It occurred […]

On November 4, Texas Low Income Housing Information Service will host the 2015 Texas Houser Awards, recognizing those committed to the cause of housing justice as activists, community leaders and policymakers (tickets are still available!). Our […]

Houston co-director Chrishelle Palay and I have been hard at work conducting research and engaging residents to produce the community-driven Sunnyside Neighborhood Plan. In partnership with Texas Organizing Project (TOP), we embarked on this plan in […]

Thanks for all the congratulations over the past week on the MacArthur Fellowship. Texas has an incredibly dedicated, talented community of housers and we want to celebrate the work of all Texas housers and those who support […]

I am deeply honored today to be named a 2014 MacArthur Fellow by the MacArthur Foundation. This recognition comes to me in large part because of my association with an extraordinary group of colleagues and associates and the […]